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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Job investment?',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The abbreviations make it difficult to read your post.
			I have to keep scrolling up to find what &quot;LLN&quot; or &quot;CLT&quot;means, for example.
		</p>
		<p>
			As for my use of the word &quot;exponential&quot;, I meant it in the strictly-mathematical way.
			Now that I think on it though, you&apos;re right.
			It&apos;s not quite exponential.
			It&apos;s more of an S-curve that I&apos;m thinking of.
			I&apos;m not sure what the mathematical term for that is, but that doesn&apos;t mean I should go using the wrong word instead.
			That only leads to confusion.
		</p>
		<p>
			With the central limit theorem, you say that it involves the mean of the samples.
			I used the broader term &quot;statistics&quot;, which includes the mean.
			Does the central limit theorem not apply to other statistics as well though?
			For example, does the standard deviation of the samples not cluster closer together just like the mean of the samples when larger samples are used?
		</p>
		<p>
			Yeah, I try to post my initial discussion post early.
			Forces beyond my control prevent me from getting all my posts in early, but I can usually get the main one up in a day or two.
			Good luck to you as well!
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Great job describing the central limit theorem!
			I had the jist of it, but I failed to mention the bell-shaped curve that the estimates given by different samples fall along.
			Like you said, the larger the sample, the closer to that true, central value the estimates will tend to become.
			I enjoyed your analogy with the window to view part of the population in your description of the law of large numbers, as well.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="investment">
	<h2>Job investment?</h2>
	<p>
		I assumed being authorised to perform cash drops at work would make the job more convenient.
		Instead, after doing that today, I found I instead felt ... I don&apos;t know, more invested in the job?
		More satisfied?
		Something like that.
		It could just be a side effect of something else in my life though.
		Between my body slowly getting less flabby, the realisation that I&apos;m getting stronger and more endurant, and the doctor taking that obnoxious corn out of my foot, I&apos;ve been feeling rather decent and contented with life.
		I mean, I still view life as a curse, but I don&apos;t think about that as often.
		The timing on these escalated privileges could be making me incorrectly tie the positive feelings of my improved state of being to them.
	</p>
	<p>
		In any case, I still need to get out of here.
		I won&apos;t be able to job hunt during the upcoming break because I won&apos;t have my degree yet, but by the break after that, I hopefully will.
		This is still a toxic work environment, even if I&apos;m not feeling the toxicity as much as before.
	</p>
</section>
END
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